Teetering on the edge ...

The last couple days have been quite eventful with a broken car, broken computer and even a broken tooth that is going to require surgery. (minor surgery but there will be stitches involved) All of it stinks but it it could be worse and it almost was or at least it seemed like it.

This week we've also been trying to get the last of our "bring Mischa home" paperwork done and it's always tough trying to find time to "run" to Albany, it's 7 hours round trip in good weather. So lately we've been overnighting it, panicking until it's delivered in Albany, calling and begging for them to rush it through in one day, panicking until they call and say it's done, and sending them a prepaid FedEx slip to send it back out overnight to another family traveling to Russia, and then panicking until it's delivered. The people at the State Department have been so nice and our latest package was being sent out from Albany last night. All was fine until this morning when we turned on the news and saw that Albany had a major ice storm and there were thousands of people w/out power. Of course we panicked some more and we couldn't track the package because our computer wasn't working. This is when we started teetering on the edge ...

Thank god ... after checking at the office we found that our package had been delivered to the family in Michigan this morning and will be on it's way to Russia tomorrow. Whewwww ... we made it through another week, another stack of paperwork and now the rest of it all seems minor.